international security organization, proposed, 71
International Telecommunications Satellite organization (Intelsat), 161
Internet, 297
investment banks, 26
Iraklion base (Greece), 205
Iran, 211, 217, 235, 244, 245, 251, 252
Afghan refugees and, 177
“axis of evil” and, 20, 64, 77
coup of 1953, 167–68, 220
Israel and, 235
oil and, 168, 170, 172–74, 218
as obstacle to U.S. domination, 189, 215
potential war on, 235, 310
revolution of 1979, 222–23, 224
Iran-Contra scandal, 130, 228, 234
Iranian hostage crisis, 123, 128, 222–23
Iran-Iraq war, 224–25
Iraq, 217–53, 290.
“axis of evil” and, 20, 77
bombing, 280
British and, 70
Bush II and, 88
coup of 1958 in, 223
Israeli raid on, 70
no-fly zones, 232, 233, 240
post-war U.S. bases in, 198, 214, 215, 226, 242
private military companies and, 141
reconstruction contracts, 308–9
Shi’ites and, 224
strategic position of, 217
U.S. bases in Gulf and, 244
U.S. support for, in 1980s, 144, 223–25
U.S. troops currently in, 288
Iraqi exiles, 305
Iraq War of 2003, 62, 145, 183
as achievement of neocons, 71
al-Qaeda link as pretext for, 126–27, 305–6
Bulgaria and, 146
Bush II decision to go alone, 73
Coalition Media Center and, 249
congressional vote on, 292
cost of, 306–7
democracy as pretext for, 233
domestic politics as motive for, 236
DU ammunition in, 101–2
economic impact of, on U.S., 306–7
“embedded” reporters and, 115–16
fall of Baghdad and, 283
fragging and, 104
Germany and, 198
